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Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things
- A. Taves
- Sociology
- 28 September 2009
RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE RECONSIDERED A BUILDING BLOCK APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF RELIGION AND OTHER SPECIAL THINGS PDF Are you looking for religious experience reconsidered a building block approach to… Expand
What matters? : ethnographies of value in a not so secular age
Introduction: Things of ValueFrom a Materialist Ethic to the Spirit of PrehistoryConquering Religious Contagions and Crowds: Nineteenth-Century Psychologists and the Unfinished Subjugation of… Expand
Revelatory Events: Three Case Studies of the Emergence of New Spiritual Paths
- A. Taves
- Sociology
- 25 October 2016
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Where (Fragmented) Selves Meet Cultures
- A. Taves
- Sociology
- 1 July 2006
Cognitive theories of religious experience, while helpful in explaining some aspects of spirit possession, do not provide a means of accounting for the experience of mediums whose ordinary selves are… Expand
Reverse Engineering Complex Cultural Concepts: Identifying Building Blocks of “Religion”
- A. Taves
- Sociology
- 17 March 2015
Researchers have not yet done an adequate job of reverse engineering the complex cultural concepts of religion and spirituality in a way that allows scientists to operationalize component parts and… Expand
Fits, Trances, & Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James
- A. Taves
- Sociology
- 1999
Fits, trances, visions, speaking in tongues, clairvoyance, out-of-body experiences, possession. Believers have long viewed these and similar involuntary experiences as religious--as manifestations of… Expand
Religious Experience and the Divisible Self: William James (and Frederic Myers) as Theorist(s) of Religion
- A. Taves
- Sociology
- 1 June 2003
Journal of the American Academy of Religion June 2003, Vol. 71, No. 2, pp. 303–326 © 2003 The American Academy of Religion Scholars have understood William James’s unattributed reference to a… Expand
Psychology, Meaning Making, and the Study of Worldviews: Beyond Religion and Non-Religion
- A. Taves, E. Asprem, Elliott D. Ihm
- Psychology
- 1 August 2018
To get beyond the solely negative identities signaled by atheism and agnosticism, we have to conceptualize an object of study that includes religions and nonreligions. We advocate a shift from… Expand
A tale of two congresses: the psychological study of psychical, occult, and religious phenomena, 1900-1909.
- A. Taves
- Medicine, Psychology
- Journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
- 1 September 2014
In so far as researchers viewed psychical, occult, and religious phenomena as both objectively verifiable and resistant to extant scientific explanations, their study posed thorny issues for… Expand
Detachment and Engagement in the Study of "Lived Experience"
- A. Taves
- Sociology
- 27 October 2003
Attempts to ground the study of spirituality in definitions of spirituality suffer conceptually from difficulties that also beset the study of religion. Drawing from discussions among scholars of… Expand